Index

Entries which appear in boldface can be found in the Glossary. Cities and countries are listed according to 1933 borders; references to variations on place names in other languages are also included. References to notes are included when unique (otherwise page references are used). Italicized page numbers refer to photographs.

 

Abel, Wolfgang, 200

abortion, xxxiv, 62; eugenic, 203n25; in ghettos, 142, 143; laws against, 203

Academy Award, 36n3

actions (Aktionen), 108, 132–33. See also specific actions

adoption, 193, 204–9

AFSC. See American Friends Service Committee

“Ahoy,” 256

Aktionen (actions), 108, 132–33. See also specific Aktionen

Aktion 1005 (Operation 1005), 87n26

Aktion R (Operation R), 171n30

Aktion Reinhard (Operation Reinhard), 150, 152, 170. See also specific concentration camps

Aliyah. See Youth Aliyah

All Alone (Landau, N.), 319

Allied forces: in Amsterdam, 335; in Austria, 395–96; in Buchenwald, 378; D-day invasion by, 58, 276; German occupation by, 395–96; in Neuengamme, 232; partisans cooperating with, 49; pilots of, 253n18

Ältestenrat (Council of Elders), 115, 143

amenorrhea, 141

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), 367–68

American Jewish Congress, 6

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), 77–78, 101, 128, 401

Amsterdam (Netherlands), 356

Anderson shelters, 46, 47

And the World Remained Silent (Wiesel, E.), 410, 412–14

Anielewicz, Mordecai, 315n48, 324, 326

Anschluss (Austro-German unification), 15

antisemitism: towards businesses, 6, 7–8, 266–67; towards children, 4, 5, 9, 16–18, 19, 27–28; in education, 13, 14–15, 26, 27–28, 264–65; humiliation, 16–18, 19; international, 20; violence with, 15–16, 25

Apitz, Bruno, 187

Appelfeld, Aharon, 415

Appells (roll calls), xiii, 167, 168

Aptowicz, Adam, xxxviii, xxxix

Aptowicz, Richard, xxxviii, xxxix

Arbeitsunfähige (individuals unable to work), 62

armaments: factories, 249; factory camp, 187; industries, 61, 64n63, 150, 187n56

Armia Krajowa (Polish Home Army), 324, 325, 394

Army, U.S., 5n13

Army Air Force, U.S., 279

Army Group South, 88n29

Arrow Cross, 103n47, 104

art, by children: examples of, 73, 159, 166, 317, 321; value of, 72, 158, 305, 306, 316–17, 320

Aryan: children, 243–45, 246–71, 282; definition of, 11n27, 74

Aryanization, 31

Asser, Lissy, 98

assimilation, Jewish, 3

Aufklärungsamt für Bevölkerungspolitik und Rassenpflege (Information Office for Population Policy and Race Cultivation), 259

Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account (Nyiszli), 160–62

Auschwitz concentration camp, xiii, 154; children at, 128, 181, 305, 420; deaths at, 150–51, 155, 155, 158, 159, 160, 163, 164, 165, 169, 172, 187, 223, 224, 239n86, 286n6, 293n21, 338n25; gas chambers of, 96, 148, 155, 155, 160–61, 163, 164, 370, 377; liberation of, 169, 371n53; liquidation of, 158, 417; medical experiments at, 237, 238, 238–41, 242; Sonderkommando at, 241n87

Auschwitz Decree, 195, 223

Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp, xi, 148, 154; children at, 162–63, 164–70, 223–26; deaths at, 223, 296, 370; Gypsy family camp in, 223–24, 241; Kinderblock of, 312–13; revolt at, 328; runners in, 165, 166, 401; Sauna of, 166; survival of, 169–70. See also Theresienstadt family camp

Auschwitz III-Monowitz (Buna) concentration camp, 154, 377

Ausländerkinderpflegestätten (nursery care facilities), 62–65, 66

Austria: Allied occupation of, 395–96; emigration from, 20n42, 68; Nazi Party of, 15; Vienna, 15n36, 279

Austro-German unification (Anschluss), 15

Avangarda Młodzieży (Youth Avant-Garde), 338

Avram, Janka, 176–80

Awret, Azriel, 14n33

Awret, Irene Spicker, 13–14

Axmann, Artur, 244n1

 

Babi Yar, 87n26, 88n29, 90n33

Bad Herweck (Germany), 8

Bad Polzin (Poland), 2

Bahrmann, Harry, 278

Bajler, Szlamek, 183n50

baptism, xxxiii, 394

Barbie, Klaus, 370, 371, 372

Bárdossy, Lászlo, 103n47

Battle of Berlin, 277, 279–81

Battle of Britain, 45–46

Battle of Königsberg, 277

Battle of Nations (Völkerschlacht), 276n49

Baur, Erwin, 200n20

Bavaria, 1, 2, 29, 149

BDM. See League of German Girls

BDM Union for Belief and Beauty (BDM-Werk Glaube und Schönheit), 248

Beer Hall Putsch, 24

Beit Theresienstadt, 385n12

Bejilis, Menahem Mendel, 394n20

Belarus, 83–86

Belgium: invasion of, 96; Jewish star in, 44; Red Cross of, 366

Belorussia, 42, 332

Bełżec extermination camp, 150, 152, 153

Bergen Belsen concentration camp, 354, 354n36

Beriha (flight, migration, or exodus), 395–96

Berlin (Germany), 282n54; Battle of, 277; bombing of, 274; boycott in, 6, 7; Grunewald, 40n10; Hansaviertel, 41n12; segregation in, 39n9; University of Berlin, 224

Berlin Deaf Athletes’ Association, 245, 246–47

Berlin Society for Christian-Jewish Relations, 95

Berman, Adolf Avraham, 128, 129, 130–31

Bernburg (Germany), 171n29, 216

Beyond Despair (Appelfeld), 415, 416

Bible, 290n16, 338, 339, 340

Biebow, Hans, 115, 121, 122

Bielski, Alexander (Zus), 332–33

Bielski, Aron, 332–33

Bielski, Asael, 332–33

Bielski, Lilka Titkin, 333n16

Bielski, Tuvia, 332–33

Bielski partisans, 332–33, 334, 334

Bikernieke Forest, 127

Biology for Secondary Schools (Graf), 259

Birenbaum, Halina, 417, 418–19

Birkenau. See Auschwitz II-Birkenau

Birkenau Boys, 165

birth certificates, xl, 177

Birthday Wish I (Weissová), 307, 308

birthrate: in France, 201; in Germany, 193n4; in Łódź, 141–42

Bitter Herbs (Minco), 59

Black Saturday, 47

Blatt, Thomas (Tuvia), 329

Bleicher, Willi, 188

Blitz, 45–46, 47–48

Blitz scouts, 46

Blobel, Paul, 87, 88, 92

Block, Elisabeth, 1, 2, 9, 29–31, 32n62, 308–11

Block, Fritz, 209

Blood Protection Law (Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor), 13

Blum, Willy, 188

Blumgarten, Solomon, 290, 291

Bobrek (Poland), 377, 378

Bock, Gisela, 195

Boder, David, 378–82

Bohemia, 55n37, 401

Böhme, Horst, 55

Bolkestein, Gerrit, 353

Bondy, Curt, 20, 21

books: burning of, 258; textbooks, 259–61. See also publications

Borisenko, Petr Pavlovich, 346

Bormann, Martin, 274, 277

Bosnia-Herzegovina, 50

Bothmann, Hans, 182, 185, 186

Bouhler, Philipp, 210, 216

Bousquet, Rene, 368

boycott, 6

Boycott of April 1, 1933, 7–8

Brack, Viktor, 210, 215n50

Bramson, Ryva, 118

Brandenburg (Germany), 216

Brandt, Karl, 210, 215n50, 216

Braun, Johanna, 365

Braun, Robert, 365

Brazil, 21, 171n31, 175n36

“Break the Youth League Free,” 255

Breitenau camp, 5n12

Breitmeyer, Arno, 247n7

Bremen (Germany), 9–10

Breslau (Germany), 3

A Bridge Too Far, 58n47

Britain, Battle of, 45–46

Brith Sholom lodge, 32

British Committee for the Jews of Germany, 323–24, 357

British Mandate of Palestine, 396n26, 406

British Royal Air Force (RAF), 46, 273, 274, 279

Brunner, Alois, 373

Bruskina, Masha, 344, 345–46, 346, 347

Bryan, Julien Hequembourg, 36, 37, 37–38

Bryan, Sam, 36n4

Buchenwald Boys, 188, 404, 404, 405, 406, 407–8

Buchenwald concentration camp, 5n12, 21, 190; children at, 404, 404, 405, 406; founding of, 149; liberation of, 270, 377, 378, 404, 410; resistance at, xxxviii–xxxix, 187–88; survival of, 404, 404, 405, 406

buffered learning, 299

Bullenhuser Damm, 232, 233–35

Buna concentration camp. See Auschwitz III-Monowitz

Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM), 243, 248–49, 272

Bund Deutsch-Jüdischer Jugend (League of German Jewish Youth), 21

Bündische Jugend (Youth Leagues), 247, 252

Bur, Federico Laredo, 77

Burkeville (United States), 21, 22–23

Burmeister, Walter, 183

Bursztyn, Luba, 288n13

businesses, 6, 7–8, 266–67

Butcher of Lyon, 371

butterflies, 296–97, 298

Byelaya Tserkov (Ukraine), xxii, 87–91

 

CAEJR. See Committee to Assist Jewish Refugee Children

Caesarian sections, 203n25

The Call of Youth, 338

Callsen Trial, 90n33

Capesius, Victor, 157n12

Carl von Ossietzky prize, 39n8, 188n58

Carter, Jimmy, 398n28

Catel, Werner, 210

Catholicism, xxxiii

Celan, Paul, 416n50

CENTOS (Central Organization for Orphan Care), 128, 130–33, 285, 341

Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith (Centralverein), 265

Central Organization for Orphan Care. See CENTOS

Centralverein (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), 265

chaimke (Łódź currency), 118n16

Château de la Hille, France, 366, 367, 367, 368, 369

Chełmno extermination camp, 124; deaths at, 57, 121, 123, 150, 182–83, 184–86; gas chambers of, 57; start of, 181; survival of, 170

Chetniks, 48, 49

Chiemsee (Poland), 1

children: actions for, 109, 127, 383; adoption of, 193, 204–9; antisemitism towards, 4, 5, 9, 16–18, 19, 27–28; art by, 72, 73, 158, 159, 166, 305, 306, 316–17, 317, 320, 321; Aryan, 243–45, 246–71, 282; of Byelaya Tserkov, 87–92; in concentration camps, 128, 151, 162–76, 177, 178–80, 181, 184–87, 188, 223–26, 305, 404, 404, 405, 406, 420; deaths of, xiv, xxii, xxv, xxvi, xxxvi, 68, 87–90, 91–92, 93, 100, 101, 127–28, 130, 132–33, 217, 218–19, 220–21, 229, 232–35, 347; deportation of, 96–97, 109, 112–13, 123–26, 127, 127, 128, 129–30, 132–34, 178, 224–26, 303–4, 305, 368n50; emigration of, 71n5, 323–24, 357–59, 361; “euthanasia” of, 193, 209–10, 211–13, 215, 217–21; evacuation of, 32–34, 46–47, 71n5, 72, 73–75, 274, 275, 276, 285, 286, 357–59, 360, 361–68, 369, 404, 404, 405, 406, 407; in ghettos, xxviii–xxxii, 108–9, 111–14, 114, 115–16, 117, 118–20, 121, 123–26, 129–33, 284, 285, 286, 302–3, 382–83; hidden, xxiv, xxx, xxxii, xxxiii–xxxiv, 14n33, 38–39, 83, 153, 179, 188, 314, 315–16, 319, 320, 324, 347–54, 355, 356, 356, 376, 388, 389–91; labor of, 118, 119–20, 121, 137–40, 141, 176, 177, 309; in Łódź, 117; memories of, 415, 416–17; narratives of, xvi, xxiv; orphaned, xxiii, 100–101, 115, 128, 129–32, 349–50, 351, 352; play of, 262, 283–86, 291–92, 293, 293–94, 298–302, 302, 312–13, 314; publications for, 337–40; resistance of, 323, 340–41, 342, 343–44; smuggling by, 323, 340–41, 342, 343–44; as soldiers, 276–78; toys of, 261–62, 294–96, 297, 298; as “useless eaters,” 127. See also education; Germanization; Rehoboth Bastards; “Rhineland Bastards”; specific children

children’s actions (Kinderaktionen), 109, 127, 383

Children’s Aid Society. See Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants

children’s block (Kinderblock), xxxix, 312–13

children’s colony (Kinderkolonie), 115

children’s transports (Kindertransport), 71n5, 73–74, 323–24, 357–59, 361

child-supported allowances (Kindergeld), 193, 208

The Chronicle of the Łódź Ghetto, 138, 293, 294–95

Chwila (The Moment), 151

Clauberg, Carl, 236

closed number (numerus clausus), 9, 9n22

coal holidays, 272

“coal miners,” 118, 119–20, 121

collection camp, 2, 94

Cologne Navajos, 252, 253, 257

Committee for the Care of European Children, U.S., 367

Committee to Assist Jewish Refugee Children (Comité d’Assistance aux Enfants Juif Refugiés), 366

compensation, 309n42

concentration camps (Konzentrationslager), 25; after Reichskristallnacht, 149; children in, 128, 151, 162–76, 177, 178–80, 181, 184–87, 188, 223–26, 305, 404, 404, 405, 406, 420; deaths in, 121, 150–51, 152, 155, 155, 158, 159, 160, 163, 164, 165, 169, 172, 182–83, 184–85, 187, 223–24, 228, 239n86, 286n6, 293n21, 338n25, 370; education in, 168; food at, 168–69; function of, 149–50; play in, 312–13, 314; revolts at, 172, 173, 323, 328, 329; selection process at, 154–58, 159, 173–74, 176, 177, 178, 383, 410; survival in, 159, 160–62, 169–70, 177n42, 375, 395–97, 397, 404, 404, 405, 406. See also specific concentration camps

conscription, 268, 276–78

Conti, Leonardo, 231

Council of Elders (Ältestenrat), 115, 143

crematoria. See gas chambers

Criminal Biological Institute of the Security Police, 222

Croatia, Independent State of, 48, 228

Cuba, 77, 80

Cukier, Julian, 138

CV. See Centralverein

Czechoslovakia: Lidice, 55, 56, 57, 206; Mischlinge in, 385; occupation of, 144, 385; regulations in, 41

Czerniakow, Adam, 123

 

Dachau concentration camp, 5n12; founding of, 149; liberation of, 382, 382–85; medical experiments at, 235–36; political prisoners in, 103

DAF. See German Labor Front

Davenport, Charles B., 191

DAW. See German Armaments Works

D-day, 58, 276

deafness, 186, 195, 245, 246

“Death Fugue” (Celan), 416n50

death houses, 128

death marches, 169, 177n42, 377–78, 395, 406, 410, 417

deaths: of children, xiv, xxii, xxv, xxvi, xxxvi, 68, 87–90, 91–92, 93, 100, 101, 127–28, 130, 132–33, 217, 218–19, 220–21, 229, 232–35, 347; civilian, 48; of communities, 87; in concentration camps, 121, 150–51, 152, 155, 155, 158, 159, 160, 163, 164, 165, 169, 172, 182–83, 184–85, 187, 223–24, 228, 239n86, 286n6, 293n21, 338n25, 370; by Einsatzgruppen, 67–68, 81–87, 88n29, 108, 228; in gas chambers, 57, 83, 94n36, 96, 123, 216, 217, 370, 412, 417; by gas vans, 82; in ghettos, 109, 110; of Gypsies, 221–22, 223–26, 227–29; in Hungary, 103, 104; in the Iasi Pogrom, 99; of Jehovah’s Witnesses, 269; in Netherlands, 59; on Reichskristallnacht, 25; in Romania, 98–99; by shooting, 82, 83–86; of soldiers, 277, 279; in Soviet Union, 332; from starvation, xxvi, 52, 54, 59, 99, 227–28, 313, 354n36; in World War I, 35, 193n4; World War II, 35, 67–68. See also “euthanasia”; suicide

“Death Trains,” 99

Decoste, Marie-Louise, 371n53

Dedijer, Vladimir, 49, 50–51

Denmark, 42n14, 274n45

deportation, 2, 44, 94; under Auschwitz Decree, 223; to Auschwitz II–Birkenau, 154; of children, 96–97, 109, 112–13, 123–26, 127, 127, 128, 129–30, 132–34, 178, 224–26, 303–4, 305, 368n50; definitions of, 68; in France, 95–97; from ghettos, 108, 112–13, 123–24, 127, 127–28, 156, 177, 181, 182–83, 184, 302–3; of Gypsies, 224–28; from Hungary, 103, 104, 410; of Romanians, 98–99. See also Great Deportation Action

depression, xxvii–xxviii. See also Great Depression

Deutekom, Dirk, 232, 235n81

Deutsche Arbeitsfront (German Labor Front), 268–69, 274n43

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society), 242

Deutsche Rüstungswerke (German Armaments Works), 151–52

Deutsches Jungvolk (German Young Volk), 244, 265

Deutschkron, Inge, 38–39, 40–41

Deutschkron, Martin, 39

“Deutschlandlied” (“Deutschland, Deutschland, über alles”), 271n40

diaries, 30–31, 50–51, 70. See also specific diaries

Diary of a Young Girl (Frank, Anne), 411

The Diary of Mary Berg (Wattenberg, M.), 287n9

disabilities, people with: “euthanasia” for, 170, 182n48, 193, 209, 210, 211–14, 215; mental, 81–82, 192, 194

Disney, Walt, 312, 314

displaced persons (DP), 395; camps for, 376, 396–97, 397, 398, 399; education for, 397, 399, 399

Displaced Persons Coordinating Committee, 367n46

Di Yugent Stimme (The Voice of Youth), 338

Ðjilas, Milovan, 49, 50–51

Dobrecki, Róża, 112

Dobrecki, Seweryn, 112–13

Dobrecki, Zygmunt, 112

documentaries, 259

documentation: birth certificates, xl, 177; forged, 345, 347; working papers, xli, 137

Dom Seriot, 129

Don’t Trust a Fox in a Green Meadow or the Jew by His Oath (Trau keinem Fuchs auf grüner Heid und keinem Jud bei seinem Eid), 261

DP. See displaced persons

Draenger, Jurek, xxxvii

Draenger, Margot, xxxvii, xxxviii

Drancy transit camp, 96, 370, 373n56

Das drohende Unheil” (“The Threatening Calamity”), 88n28

Dror youth organization, 286, 324

Dubois, Maurice, 368, 369

Dünamünde Action, 127

Dutch Green Police, 354

Dutch Hunger Winter, 58–60, 61

Dydyna, Hedvig, 389

 

Earnest Bible Students (Ernste Bibelforscher). See Jehovah’s Witnesses

Eberl, Irmfried, 170–71

Écouis (Eure), France, 406, 407–8

Edelweiss Pirates, 243, 251–53, 256–57

edema, 66n65, 169

education: antisemitism in, 13, 14–15, 26, 27–28, 264–65; coal holidays from, 272; in concentration camps, 168; deprivation of, 28, 29, 30; in DP camps, 396–97, 397, 398; in ghettos, 131, 132, 283, 284, 285–89, 289, 303, 341, 350; postwar, 396–97, 397, 398, 399, 399, 406; segregation in, xvi, 9, 28, 29, 30, 40, 264, 284; teachers, 258; textbooks for, 259–61

Effektenkammer (warehouse for personal effects), 398

Ehegesundheitsgesetz (Marital Hygiene Law), 246

Ehestandsdarlehen (marriage loans), 193, 208

Ehrenreich, Frieda, 358, 359

Ehrenreich, Helmuth, 358–59, 360

Ehrenreich, Nathan, 358, 359

Ehrmann, Alice, 385, 386–87

Ehrmann, Pavla, 385

Ehrmann, Rudolf, 385

Ehrmann, Ruth, 385

Eichberg, 217

Eiche, Theodor, 231n74

Eichmann, Adolf, 103

Eichmann Trial, 83, 128n27, 130, 183n49, 298–300, 418

Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units), 67–68, 81–87, 88n29, 108, 228

Einsatzgruppen Trial, 87n26

Einsatzkommando 9, 109

Einzelaktionen (individual action against Jews), 6

Eisen, George, 299

Eisner, Jisreal, 105

Eisner, Mordechai, 104

Eisner, Pinchas, 104–6

Eisner, Sorele, 105

El Al (Upwards), 337–38

emigration, 19; after Reichskristallnacht, 7, 8n21, 10, 68, 69, 73, 74; from Austria, 20n42, 68; of children, 323–24, 357–59, 361; to England, 73, 74, 75, 78, 323–24, 357–58; National Socialist policy of, 67, 68; obstacles to, 20, 71–72; to U.S., 4n11, 5, 7, 8n21, 32, 70, 76, 77–81, 81, 96, 287n9, 290n16, 320, 356, 361–65, 365. See also children; St. Louis, MS

emigration-training farm, 20, 21, 22, 24

employment: compensation for, 309n42; discrimination in, 39, 74n9; occupational training centers for, 20, 21. See also labor

An Empty House (Minco), 59

Empty Water (Żywulska), xiii

encephalitis, 218

Endurance (Oisdoier), 338

England: emigration to, 73, 74, 75, 78, 323–24, 357–58; Harwich, 73, 358; Hull, 46n24; London, 45–46, 47

Eppenstein, Ilana, 401

Epstein, Werner, 368n51

Das Erbe (The Inheritance), 259

Erbgesundheitsgesetz (Hereditary Health Law), 194–97, 198, 201–2

Erbkrank (Hereditarily Ill), 259

Ernste Bibelforscher (Earnest Bible Students). See Jehovah’s Witnesses

Essen (Germany), 273

Essen Roving Dudes, 252

Estonia, xxxv, 228, 370

ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche), 258

Eugenic and Population Biological Research Station, 222–23

eugenics, 10–13; abortions and, 203n25; adoption and, 206–9; in Germany, 191–200, 205, 237; propaganda for, 259–60; in U.S., 191–92. See also “euthanasia”; sterilization

“euthanasia,” xvn5, 62n54, 171; of adults, 215–16, 217; of children, 193, 209–10, 211–13, 215, 217–21; conditions for, 212; with disabilities, 170, 182n48, 193, 209, 210, 211–14, 215; by gas chamber, 216, 217; Hitler’s policies on, 209, 215; registration for, 213–14

evacuation. See children; emigration

Executive Committee of the Hungarian National Council in Exile, 103n47

 

Faltlhauser, Valentin, 218

families: home, 2n4, 375, 376; reuniting of, 375–76, 381n7, 388–89, 389, 390–95, 398, 400–405. See also specific family camps

Fast, Cyla, xl–xli

Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia, 49

feeblemindedness, 192, 194, 221

Feist, Judith, 406–7, 408–9

Feist, Phillip, 407n35

Feldblum, Léa (Laja), 371

Felddegen, Lily, 366, 367

Feldhendler, Leon, 329

Fiennes, Ralph, 178n43

First Belorussian Front, 279

First Ukrainian Front, 279

Fischer, Avi, 167

Fischer, Eugen, 200

The Flame (Płomienie), 338

flight (Beriha), 395–96

Florence, Gabriel, 231, 232, 235n81

Flossenbürg concentration camp, 149

Föhrenwald (Germany), 396

food: at concentration camps, 168–69; hunger for, 51–52; labor for, 137; postwar, 408; ration cards for, 39, 40, 41, 134, 137; for Sonderkommando, 241n87. See also starvation

Fort IX, 128

Fort Montluc prison, 370

Fount of Life. See Lebensborn

Frahm, Johann, 232, 233–35

France, xxv, 41–42; Château de la Hille, 366, 367, 367, 368, 369; deportation in, 95–97; Écouis, 406, 407–8; Jewish star in, 44; La Maison d’Izieu, 369–70, 370, 371, 372, 373; Mischlinge in, 201, 202; Normandy, 58, 276; occupation of, 44; Paris, 368n50

Franco-Prussian War, 5

Franghieru, Iser, 99, 100–101, 102

Frank, Alexander, 366

Frank, Annelies (Anne), 52–53, 353, 411

Frank, Edith, 354n36

Frank, Hans, 41, 42

Frank, Karl Hermann, 55

Frank, Margo, 353

Frank, Otto, 353, 354

Frankel, Alona. See Goldman, Ilona

Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 155n11

Freiberg, Berel Dov, 170, 172–73, 330–31

French Republic, 198

Freudenheim, Fritz, 72, 73

Freund-Waldhorn, Dobka, xxxiv–xxxv

Friedman, Pavel, 296

Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp, 64n63, 66

Fritzlar (Germany), 4

Frohlich, Julek, xxxiv–xxxv

“From Our Old Home to Our New Home” (“Von der alten Heimat zu der neuen Heimat”), 72

Führer Chancellery, 210

Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt (The Führer Gives a City to the Jews), 145

 

Gabčík, Jozef, 55

gangrene, 237

gas chambers, 83, 94n36, 150–51; of Auschwitz, 96, 148, 155, 155, 160–61, 163, 164, 370, 377; of Chełmno, 123; “euthanasia” by, 216, 217; of Sobibór, 172; survival of, 159, 160–62

gas vans, 82, 159, 182; at Chełmno, 186

GDR. See German Democratic Republic

Gebhardt, Karl, 230, 236

Gehsperre (curfew), 109, 123–24, 127, 302–4, 305, 383

Geller, Eliezer, 338

Geltungsjude, 74, 144

Generalgouvernement (General Government), 41, 42, 150, 152

Generalplan Ost (General Plan East), 200n21

German 707th Infantry Division, 344, 345, 346

German air force (Luftwaffe), 45–46, 47

German Armaments Works (Deutsche Rüstungswerke), 151–52

German Democratic Republic (GDR), 188n59

Germanization, xvn5, 56, 193, 205, 206; Lebensborn involvement in, 206–9

German Labor Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront), 268–69, 274n43

German Research Society (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), 242

German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, 43n17

Germany: Allied occupation of, 395–96; Bad Herweck, 8; Berlin, 7, 39n9, 274, 282n54; birthrate in, 193n4; Brandenburg, 216; Bremen, 9; Breslau, 3; defeat of, 279–81; Essen, 273; eugenics in, 191–200, 205, 237; Föhrenwald, 396; foreign labor in, 61–62, 63; Fritzlar, 4; greeting in, 8, 270, 271; Grimma, 71n5; Grosse-Hamburger-Strasse, 94, 377; Hildesheim, 98; Höchst, 7; Jewish people in, 3, 3n6, 19–20, 38–39; Munich, 25, 26–27; Retzow, 398; Ruhrgebiet, 254; Schivelbein, 265, 266–67; Suttrop, 282; Voerde, 64, 65–66

German Young Volk (Deutsches Jungvolk), 244, 265

Gerrets, Ralf, 228–29, 230

Gerst, Yehuda Leib, 122n19

Gersten, Adi, 69–70

Gersten, Chaim Lazar, 69, 70

Gersten, Rosa, 69

Gersten, Thea, 69–70, 71

Gesetz über die Hitlerjugend (Law Concerning Hitler Youth), 244–45

Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses (Law for Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases), 194–97, 198, 201–2, 213, 246, 259

Gestapo, 14, 55, 198

“The Ghetto Children’s Toys” (Rosenfeld), 294

Ghetto Chronicle, 138, 293, 294–95

ghettoization: in Hungary, 103–4; large-scale, 109; purpose of, 108

ghettos, 43; abortion in, 142, 143; children in, xxviii–xxxii, 108–9, 111–14, 114, 115–16, 117, 118–20, 121, 123–26, 129–33, 284, 285, 286, 302–3, 382–83; currency in, 118n16; deaths in, 109, 110; deportation from, 108, 123–24, 127, 128, 129–30, 156, 177; education in, 131, 132, 283, 284, 285–89, 289, 303, 341, 350; Jewish badge in, 108; life in, 107–8; orphanages in, 129–32, 350; pregnancy in, 141, 142–44; publications in, 138, 293, 294–95, 336–38; starvation in, 134–41, 148; welfare for, 118n15. See also specific ghettos

Gies, Miep, 353, 354

Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom), 261, 261

Ginz, Otto, 144

Ginz, Petr, 144, 146, 147

Ginzová, Eva, 144, 146–48

Ginzová, Maria, 144

Girls’ Organizations (Mädchenschaften), 248

“Give me your children!” (Rumkowski), 109, 123, 124–26

Gleiwitz concentration camp, 398

Glubokoye ghetto, 141

Goebbels, Josef, 261

Goldman, Gusta, 314–15, 316

Goldman, Ilona, 314–16, 317, 317

Goldman, Salomon, 314, 316

Goldschmidt-Brodsky, Alfred, 366

Goldschmidt-Brodsky, Marguerite, 366

Goldszmit, Henryk, 129

Golshany (Belorussia), 42, 43

Gordon, Aaron David, 338

Gordonia youth organization, 338

Göring, Hermann, 46

Göth, Amon, 177, 178n43, 179

Grab, Walter, 16, 17–18

Graf, Jakob, 259

Grafeneck, 216, 236n83

Great Deportation Action, 324, 342

Great Depression, 20, 361

Greater German Youth Movement (Grossdeutsche Jugendbewegung), 244

Great Fire of London, 46

Great Patriotic War, 346

Greece, 41–42

greeting, German, 8, 270, 271

Grimma (Germany), 71n5

Griner, Szepsel, 351–52

Groscurth, Helmuth, 87–88, 90–92

Gross, Walter, 259

Gross-Breesen (Silesia), 20, 21, 22, 24

Grossdeutsche Jugendbewegung (Greater German Youth Movement), 244

Grosse-Hamburger-Strasse (Berlin), Germany, 94, 377

Grunewald, 40n10

Grynszpan, Herschel, 24

Gumpel, Berthold, 96

Gumpel, Felicitas (Fee), 96, 97

Gumpel, Gertrud, 96

Gumpel, Kurt, 96

Gumpel, Thomas, 96, 97

Gunskirchen Lager, 401

Günther & Co., 262

Gutgold, Estera, 288n13

Gymnasium, 39n6, 286

Gypsies, 81, 123, 193, 195n8; classification of, 222–23; deaths of, 221–22, 223–26, 227–29; deportation of, 224–28; family camp, 223–24, 241; sterilization of, 223, 226. See also Roma

Gypsy camp (Zigeunerlager), 123n22

Gypsy family camp, 241

Gypsy mixed-breeds (Zigeunermischlinge), 223–26, 227

 

Haarlem (Netherlands), 354–55

Hachscharah, 138

Hadamar, 216

Häfner, August, 90, 91, 92

hair, cutting of, 171–72, 175–76

Hamburg-American Passenger Line (HAPAG), 80

Hart, Anita Rosemarie, 217, 218–21

Hartheim (Austria), 216

Harwich (England), 73, 358

HASAG. See Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft-Metalwarenfabrik

Ha-Shomer Ha-Za’ir, 315, 324, 327–28, 338

Hauskommando (housework detail), 182, 183

Havana (Cuba), 77, 80

Hebrew, 31

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), 367

hectography, 337

Hefelmann, Hans, 210

Hehalutz, 99, 101

Heil Hitler, 8, 15n35

Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Kaufbeuren (Kaufbeuren Sanatorium and Nursing Home), 217, 218, 219

Heinze, Hans, 210–11

Heissmeyer, August, 231

Heissmeyer, Kurt, 230–31, 232–33

Hemmendinger, Claude, 407n35

Hemmendinger, Judith, 406–7, 408–9

Hereditarily Ill (Erbkrank), 259

Hereditary Health Law (Erbgesundheitsgesetz), 194–97, 198, 201–2

Hescheles, Henryk, 151

Hescheles, Janina, 151, 152–53

heterochromia, 237

Heydrich, Reinhard, 55, 144–45

HIAS. See Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society

hidden children. See children

“Hier trägst Du mit!”, 259, 260

Hildesheim (Germany), 98

Himmler, Heinrich, 56, 68, 82, 203, 205; Auschwitz Decree of, 223; medical experiments under, 231, 236; as military leader, 276–77

Hirsch, Fredy, 167–68, 312

Hitler, Adolf, 4, 5, 52, 149, 192; “euthanasia” policies of, 209, 215; suicide of, 279

Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend), 25, 243; compulsory membership in, 244–45; evacuations by, 275; military training through, 245, 272, 273, 277; propaganda for, 246–47; resistance to, 252–57; uniforms, 406

HJ. See Hitler Youth

Höchst (Germany), 7

Hoffman-Fischel, Hanna, 167–69, 299–300, 312–13

Hohenlychen sanatorium, 230

holidays, 31n62, 116, 117, 272

Hölzel, Anton, 232, 235n81

Home General Bernheim, 366

Home Speyer, 366

Hope Is the Last to Die (Birenbaum), 418

“Horst-Wessel-Lied” (“Horst Wessel Song”), 271n40

Horthy, Miklós, 102, 104

Horwitz, Cilia “Cilly” Jutta, 74, 75

Horwitz, Margarete, 74, 75

Horwitz, Max, 74, 75

Horwitz, Sophie de Vries, 75, 76

Horwitz, Walter, 74, 75–76

Hošek, Jiři, 306

Hotel Polski, 338n25

Hottentot, 200n20

housework detail (Hauskommando), 182, 183

Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft-Metalwarenfabrik (HASAG), 187

Hull (England), 46n24

humiliation, 16–18, 19

Hundred Years’ War, 327n8

Hungary, 42, 102, 160n15; Budapest, 103–4; deaths in, 103, 104; deportations from, 103, 104, 410; evacuations to, 274n45; ghettoization in, 103–4

hunger, 51–52. See also starvation

Huntington’s chorea, 194

Hyde Farm, 21, 22–23

hypomyelia, 230

 

I accuse (Ich klage an), 210n44

Iasi Pogrom, 99

Ich klage an (I accuse), 210n44

identity, xxxiii–xxxv, 392

If This Is a Man (Levi), 411

Ignatievna, Mariya, 53

illegitimacy. See pregnancy

Independent Order of Brith Shalom, 361–63, 365

“I Never Saw Another Butterfly” (Friedman), 296–97

infant camps (Säuglingslager), 62–65, 66

Information Office for Population Policy and Race Cultivation (Aufklärungsamt für Bevölkerungspolitik und Rassenpflege), 259

The Inheritance (Das Erbe), 259

Institute for German History, 16n40

Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene, 237n84

intermarriage, 3, 13, 14, 74n9, 202

International Bible Study Society, 268

International Committee of the Red Cross (IRC), 24, 145, 164, 168n24, 307

International Film Foundation, 36

International Military Tribunal, 274n44

International Scouting Movement, 252n15

International Tracing Service of the Red Cross, 388

internment, 76n14

In Those Terrible Days (Zelkowicz), 303–4

Iran, 11n27

IRC. See International Committee of the Red Cross

Isle of Man, 79n19

Israel, 32, 395, 417–18. See also Palestine

Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (Jewish Community of Vienna), 32

Israeli War of Independence, 333n16

Israels, Louise, 354, 355, 356, 356

Italy, 42, 396

Izbica transit camp, 5

Izieu (France). See La Maison d’Izieu (France)

 

Jägala labor camp, 228

Jamaïque, SS, 72

Janowska concentration camp, 151, 152

Jasenovac concentration camp, 228

Jauch, Ewald, 232, 234

JDC. See American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Jehovah’s Witnesses, 268–71

Jelén, Dorka, 288n13

Jewish Agency for Palestine, 396

Jewish badge, 32, 42, 43–44, 45, 144; in ghettos, 108. See also yellow star

“Jewish Children on the Aryan Side” (Ringelblum), 341, 348–51

Jewish Community of Berlin, 31

Jewish Community of Vienna (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde), 32

Jewish Council (Judenrat), 107–8, 110, 115, 123

Jewish Fighting Organization (Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa), 324, 325, 326, 327

Jewish Historical Commission of Kraków, 153

Jewish Military Union (Żydowski Związek Wojskowy), 325, 328

Jewish New Year, 116, 117

Jewish Order Service (also Jewish Order Police), 108, 110, 177, 178

Jewish people: anonymous, 18; in Germany, 3, 19–20, 38–39; identification of, 31–32, 144, 347, 360; identity of, xxxiii–xxxiv, 392; motherhood of, xxxiv, xxxvi; names of, 32, 33–34, 350–51, 360n41; pregnancy of, xxxv–xxxvi, 141, 142–44; regulations on, 39–42, 43–44, 68; sterilization of, 197, 309

Jewish Winterhilfe (Winter Relief Organization), 94

Jews of Zhetl, 334

jitterbugging, 251

Joan of Arc, 327

Joseph, Josef, 77–78

Joseph, Liesel, 78, 79

Jozak, Josef, 315

Judenrat (Jewish Council), 107–8, 110, 115, 123

“Juden raus!” (“Jews, Get Out!”), 262, 263

Jugendbund der NSDAP (Youth League of the Nazi Party), 244

Junghans, Richard, 40

Jungmädel (Young Girls’ League), 248, 250

Jungtruf (The Call of Youth), 338

Justin, Eva, 222, 223, 224

 

kaddish (prayer for the dead), 413

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, 200nn20–21, 237n84

Kállay, Miklós, 103

Kapo (Lager Kapo), 167

Karlebach, Emil, xxxix

Katzenelson, Isaac, 286

Kaufbeuren concentration camp, 383

Kaufbeuren Sanatorium and Nursing Home (Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Kaufbeuren), 217, 218, 219

“Keep Not Thou Silence, O God,” 338

kibbutz, 417

Kibbutz Ben Shemen, 69

Kielce (Poland), xxiii, 400n29

Kinderaktionen (children’s actions), 109, 127, 383

Kinderblock (children’s block), xxxix, 167, 312–13

Kinderfachabteilungen (special pediatric units), 211, 217

Kindergeld (child-supported allowances), 193, 208

Kinderkolonie (children’s colony), 115

Kinderlandverschickung (KLV), 274, 275

Kindertransport (children’s transports), 71n5, 73–74, 323–24, 357–59, 361

King Matt the First (Korczak), 129

Kittelbach Pirates (KP), 252, 255–56

Klemperer, Viktor, 63

Klooga concentration camp, xxxv

KLV. See Kinderlandverschickung

Knesset, 128n27

Königsberg, Battle of, 277

Konzentrationslager. See concentration camps

Koplowicz, Abram (Avraham), 317–18

Koplowicz, Mendel, 317, 318

Koplowicz, Yochet, 317

Korczak, Janusz, 129, 130, 131, 133–34

Kornmann (Chaplain), 89

Kostewicz, Anna, 36, 37, 38

Kostewicz, Kazimiera, 36, 37, 38

Kovno (Lithuania), 127–28, 142–44

Kozłowski, Abram, 43

Kozłowski, Chasia, 43

Kozłowski, Ėlia, 43

Kozłowski, Idel, 42, 43

Kozłowski, Isaak, 43

Kozłowski, Masha, 43

Kraków (Poland), xxxvii, xxxviii, 177, 178

Krasnodar Trial, 159

Krasny Bor, 53

Kraus, Eleanor, 32–34, 361, 364–65

Kraus, Gilbert, 32–33, 361–65

Kraus, Karl, 164, 401

Kraus, Lotte, 164, 401

Kraus, Michal, 164–66, 401–3

Kristallnacht. See Reichskristallnacht

Krupp, Alfried, 64

Krysia, Hania, 397, 398

Krysia, Rozalia, 397, 398–99

Kubiš, Jan, 55

Kugelmann, Bertel, 4, 5

Kugelmann, Betty, 5n12

Kugelmann, Brunhilde, 5n12

Kugelmann, Josef, 5

Kugelmann, Max, 5n13

Kugler, Viktor, 353

 

Laak, Aleksander, 228–29, 230

labor: of children, 118, 119–20, 121, 137–40, 141, 176, 177, 309; compensation for, 309n42; for food, 137; foreign, 61–62, 63; prison, 150; selection for, 151, 152, 154–55, 158, 159, 164, 172, 173–74, 178, 383, 410. See also concentration camps; specific labor camps

Labor Zionism, 228

Lagerleiter, SS, 167–68

Lake Lagoda, 52

Laks, Isaac, 397, 398

Laks, Pola, 397, 398

Laks, Regina, 397–99, 399, 400

Landau, Janek, 319

Landau, Nelly, 319–20

Landau, Rose, 319, 320

Landau, Sonia, xiii

Landau, Sygmunt, 319–20

Lange, Herbert, 182

Langenhorn, 217

language, 11n27; German, 63, 168, 408; Hebrew, 31; Yiddish, 348

Lanzmann, Claude, 184

Läufer (runners), 165, 166, 401

Law against the Overcrowding of German Schools and Universities, 9, 28

Law Concerning Hitler Youth (Gesetz über die Hitlerjugend), 244–45

Law for Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases (Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses), 194–97, 198, 201–2, 213, 246, 259

Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor (Blood Protection Law), 13

Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, 39, 258

Lawrence, Sidney, 356

Lazarett, 175

Łazowertówna, Henryka, 342–43

League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel), 243, 248–49, 272

League of German Jewish Youth (Bund Deutsch-Jüdischer Jugend), 21

League of Nations, 5n14

Lebensborn (Fount of Life), xvn5, 56, 193; Germanization involvement of, 206–9; homes, 203–5; start of, 202

Lehmann, Gotthold, 197

Leib, Haim, 100

Leipziger Meuten (Leipzig Gangs), 253

Lemberg atrocities, 91. See also Lvov (Poland)

lending library, 397–98

Leningrad (USSR), 52

Lenz, Fritz, 200n20

Lerman, Shmuel Milek (Miles), 398

LeVernet internment camp, 368

Levi, Primo, 411

Levine, Louis, 361, 362

Levy, Leo, 2, 308–9

Ležáky (Czechoslovakia), 55n37

liberation: of Auschwitz, 169, 371n53; of Buchenwald, 270, 377, 378, 404, 410; of Dachau, 382, 382–85; of Mauthausen, 306; of Prague, 385–87; of Theresienstadt, 385–87

Lichtenegger, 18

Lichterfelde, 282n54

Lidice (Czechoslovakia), 55, 56, 57, 206

Lilienthal, Georg, 204

Linden, Herbert, 210

Lithuania: Ponary, 109, 110; Vilna, xxxv, 109–12, 127, 289–91

“The Little Smuggler” (Łazowertówna), 342–43

“Little Stalingrad Defends Itself” (Ringelblum), 327

Litzmann, Karl, 115n11

Litzmannstadt (Poland), 115n11, 295. See also Łódź

Łódź (Poland), xiii, xxv, 5n12, 56–57, 108; birthrates in, 141–42; children in, 112–16, 117, 118, 302–3; The Chronicle of the Łodź Ghetto, 138, 293, 294–95; currency in, 118n16; deportation from, 112–13, 123–24, 181, 182–83, 184, 302–3; education in, 285, 287; Gehsperre at, 109, 123–24, 127, 302–4, 305, 383; Gypsy camp in, 123n22; liquidation of, 183, 383; longevity of, 121–22; Marysin, 115–16, 123, 140n46, 293, 303; renaming of, 115n11; social services in, 115, 122; starvation in, 135–36

Loeb, Hans, 78n19

Loewenbach, Vera, 165, 401, 403

London (England), 45–46, 47

looting, 25

Löwensberg, Ernst Moritz, 21, 22–23

Łozoswki, Rachmiel, 334–36

LTI–Lingua Tertian Imperii (Klemperer), 63

Lubien, Marion, 272

Lublin (Poland), xxvi–xxxii, xli, xxxviin12; ghetto, 291–93; Jewish people in, xli; liberation of, 329

Lueger, Karl, 15n36

Luftwaffe (German air force), 45–46, 47

Luxembourg, 41–42

Lvov (Poland), xl, 315, 316, 319, 320

 

Ma’ariv, 39n8

Maccabi Hazair, 138

Mädchenschaften (Girls’ Organizations), 248

Madison Square Garden, 6

Mahlow, Tutti, 13, 14

Main Office of the Personal Staff of the Reichsführer-SS, 203

La Maison d’Izieu (France), 369–70, 370, 371, 372, 373

Majdanek concentration camp, 417

Majdan Tatarski suburb, xxvii–xxxii, 291

Majzlic, Henia, 288n13

Marcus, Robert, 406, 408–9

marginalization, 9, 31–32

Marital Hygiene Law (Ehegesundheitsgesetz), 246

marriage: intermarriage, 3, 13, 14, 74n9, 202; Marital Hygiene Law against, 246; Schutzsaffel (SS) Marriage Ordinance, 203

marriage loans (Ehestandsdarlehen), 193, 208

Marx, Ingrid, 7–8

Marysin (Poland), 115–16, 123, 140n46, 293, 303

Mauriac, François, 411

Mauthausen concentration camp, 4n11, 149, 158, 178n43, 306, 354

McNeil, Olive, 47

Mechelen (Malines) transit camp, 14

medical experiments: at Auschwitz, 237, 238, 238–41, 242; at Dachau, 235–36; freezing, 236; under Himmler, 231, 236; by Mengele, 237, 238; for military, 235–36; at Ravensbrück, 230, 236; sterilization, 236; on tuberculosis, 230–35

Meir, Lazar, 335

Meissner, Honza, 387

memory, xxiv, 415, 416–17

Mendes-France, Pierre, 410–11

Mengele, Josef, 160, 163, 164–65, 239, 401; medical experiments, 237, 238; mentor of, 237, 241–42

meningitis, 218

Mere, Ain-Ervin, 228, 229

Mere trial, 229n72

Messerschmidt, George, 362

Mickey Mouse, 314

Miesbeck, Peter, 308

migration (Beriha), 395–96

Mika, Kazimiera Kostewicz, 36, 37, 38

military, 35; leaders of, 276–77; medical experiments for, 235–36; youth training, 245, 272, 273, 277. See also specific military

Minco, Marga, 59

miscegenation, 3, 3n8, 13, 14, 74n9, 202

Mischlinge (mixed-breeds), 74n8, 198, 199–200; Czech, 385; in France, 201, 202; Gypsy, 223–26, 227; sterilization of, 201–2

Mission and Conscience (Unger), 210n44

mixed-breeds. See Mischlinge

mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen), 67–68, 81–87, 88n29, 108, 228

The Moment (Chwila), 151

Monowitz, 154, 377. See also Auschwitz III-
Monowitz

Montevideo (Uruguay), 72

Moroccans, 200–201, 202

mother-and-child transfers (Mutter-und-Kind-Verschickungen), 275n46

mothers, xxxiv; child’s connection with, xxxvi; unwed, 203–4. See also pregnancy

Movement for the Care of Children, 73, 323–24, 357

Mozes, Eva, 238

Mozes, Miriam, 238

Müller, Johann, 253

Munich (Germany), 25, 26–27

Munich Crisis, 144

Munich-Milbertshofen, 2

music, xxix, 379

Musselmann, 313

Mussfeld, Erich, 161–62, 239, 241

Mutter-und-Kind-Verschickungen (mother-and-child transfers), 275n46

“My Life Started from the End” (Birenbaum), 418, 419

 

Nachod (Czechoslovakia), 401

Nackt unter Wölfen (Apitz), 187

Näf, Rosa (Rösli), 368, 369

Naliboki Forest, 333, 334

names, 32, 33–34, 115n11, 350–51, 360n41

National Socialist (Nazi) Party, 4, 5, 6, 188n59, 244, 383n8; Austrian, 15; conflicting policies of, 62; emigration policy of, 67, 68; in Munich, 25; during Reichskristallnacht, 24; sterilization policies of, 193

National Socialist People’s Welfare Organization (Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt), 274, 275

National Socialist Teachers’ League, 258

National Socialist Winter Relief (Winterhilfe) association, 272

National Socialist Women’s League (NS-Frauenschaft), 248

Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt, 274, 275

Nations, Battle of, 276n49

Natzweiler concentration camp, 236

Nazi Party. See National Socialist (Nazi) Party

Netherlands, 41–42; Amsterdam, 356; blackout in, 59n49; deaths in, 59; famine, 58–60, 61; Haarlem, 354–55; Haarlemmermeer, 60n50; invasion of, 353; Jewish star in, 44; Wieringerneer, 60n50

Neuengamme concentration camp, 231, 232, 354n36

Die Neue Welt (The New World), 293n21

Neustadt-Glewe (Germany), 417

Niedernburg (Bavaria), 1, 2, 29

Niedrzwica Duża (Poland), xxxviin12

Night (Wiesel, E.), 411

Night of the Broken Glass. See Reichskristallnacht

Ninth Armored Infantry Battalion, U.S., 377, 404

Nkrumah, Kwame, 236

Noma, 237

Normandy (France), 58, 276

Norway, 41–42

Novaky labor camp, 314

NSF. See National Socialist Women’s League

NS-Frauenschaft (National Socialist Women’s League), 248

NSV. See National Socialist People’s Welfare Organization

La Nuit (Wiesel, E.), 411

numerus clausus (closed number), 9

Nuremberg Laws, 12–14, 41–42, 144, 214n49; Aryan definition in, 74

Nuremberg Medical Trial, 210n41

Nuremberg Ministries Trial, 214n49

Nuremberg Trial, Subsequent, 64n63, 206

“nursery care facilities” (Ausländerkinderpflegestätten), 62–65, 66

Nyiszli, Miklós, 160–62, 238–41

Oberrealschule (high school), 9n25

Obshestvo Remeslenofo zemledelcheskofo Truda (The Society for Trades and Agricultural Labor), 101n45

occupational training centers, 20, 21

Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (Children’s Aid Society), 324, 369, 404, 405, 407

Office V of the Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt), 62, 63, 94, 144

Ohrdruf concentration camp, 377n3

Oisdoier (Endurance), 338

Olympic Games, 247n7

Oneg Shabbat, 173, 183n50, 286, 330

On the Present Problems of the Movement (Z Problematyki ruchu w chwili obecnej), 338

Openheim, Ala, xxii–xxiii

Operation Market Garden, 58

Operation 1005 (Aktion 1005), 87n26

Operation R (Aktion R), 171n30

Operation Reinhard (Aktion Reinhard), 150, 152, 170. See also specific concentration camps

Operation T4 (“Euthanasia” program), 170, 171n29, 210n42, 216, 217; leaders of, 231n75

Opetka, 353

Opfer der Vergangenheit (Victims of the Past), 259

Oradea (Romania), 160

Organisation Todt, 66n64

orphans. See children

OSE. See Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants

Ostmark (Austria), 15, 41

OŚwięcim (Poland). See Auschwitz

 

Palestine, 20, 69, 69n2, 99n43, 406n34; British Mandate of Palestine, 396n26, 406; Jewish Agency for Palestine, 396

Pallarés, Renée, 392

Paris (France), 368n50

partisans, 323, 332–34, 334, 335–36

Passage: A War Diary (Voeten), 59

passports, 32

Pawiak Prison, 287n9, 327

Pechersky, Aleksandr “Sasha,” 329

People’s Liberation Army, 48–49

Peretz, Aharon, 142, 143–44, 298–99

Persian Empire, 10–11

Petrova Gora (Yugoslavia), 51

Peukert, Detlev, 251

Pfadfinder (Scout Movement), 247

Pfeffer, Fritz, 353

Philadelphia (United States), 32

photojournalism, 36, 37–38. See also specific photos

Piaski ravine, 152

Pick, Mařka, 387

Pieszyce, xxiii

pilots, 253n18

Pimpfe, 265, 266–67

Piski ravine, 152

Płaszów concentration camp, 177, 178–80

play, 283–86, 291–92, 293, 293–94; in concentration camps, 312–13, 314; by females, 301; realistic, 298–302, 302. See also children

Płomienie (The Flame), 338

Podchlebnik, Mordechai, 183n50

pogroms, 1–2, 400n29; Iasi, 99; Kristallnacht, 2, 21, 24, 26

The Poisonous Mushroom (Der Giftpilz), 261, 261

Poland, xxi, 63; Bad Polzin, 2; Chiemsee, 1; ghettos in, 107; invasion of, 35, 36, 61, 88n29, 107, 109, 332n15; Jewish people in, xxvi, 319n55; Kielce, xxiii, 400n29; Kraków, xxxvii, xxxviii, 177, 178; Lublin, xxvi–xxxii, xxxviii, xli, xxxviin12, 291–93, 329; Lvov, xl, 315, 316, 319, 320; Niedrzwica Duża, xxxviin12; orphanages in, 351; Połczyn-Zydrój, 2n2; postwar violence in, 400; regulations in, 41; Warsaw, xiii, xxxii, 107, 108, 109, 121, 128, 129–30, 284, 285, 286–87, 323, 324–28, 336–38; Wartheland, 112, 181; Wrocław, 3n9

Połczyn-Zydrój (Poland). See Bad Polzin (Poland)

Police Decree Concerning the Designation of Jews (Polizeiverordnung über die Kennzeichnung der Juden), 44

Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa), 324, 325, 394

Polish Orphan’s Society, 129

political prisoners, 103

Polizeiverordnung über die Kennzeichnung der Juden (Police Decree Concerning the Designation of Jews), 44

Polowiec, Tadeusz, 389–90

Pomerania (Germany), 2

Ponary (Lithuania), 109, 110

Popowski, Diana, 392

Potucnik, Mathias, 208, 209

Prague (Czechoslovakia), 289, 385–87

Pŕani k narozeninám I (Weissová), 307, 308

pregnancy, 59–60, 62n57, 109; adoption after, xl, 206–9; amenorrhea and, 141; encouragement of, 203–4; of foreign laborers, 62, 63; in ghettos, 141, 142–44; of Jewish people, xxxv–xxxvi, 141, 142–44; in Kovno, 142–44; Rehoboth Bastards and, 200n20; “Rhineland Bastards” and, 193, 197–98; of unwed mothers, 203–4. See also abortion; sterilization

President Harding, SS, 365, 365

President’s Commission on the Holocaust, 398n28, 409

Prezylam Ošwiaęcim (Żywulska), xiiin1

prison: Fort Montluc, 370; labor in, 150; Pawiak, 287n9, 327

propaganda, 246–47, 257–63

The Prophet (Katzenelson), 286n6

protective custody (Schutzhaft), 267

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 144

protest rallies, 6, 267

Prussian Interior Ministry, 198, 199

Psalm 83, 338, 339, 340

publications: for children, 337–40; in ghettos, 138, 293, 294–95, 336–38. See also specific publications

puppet governments, 41–42

Quenouille, René, 231, 232, 235n81

 

Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA), 203, 205, 206

race defilement (Rassenschande), 13, 14

racial community (Volksgemeinschaft), 10n26, 193–94, 268

racial theories. See eugenics

Radio Oranje, 353

RAF. See British Royal Air Force

Raiter, Raymond, 64

rape, 198, 279–80, 281

Rassenschande (race defilement), 13, 14

ration cards, 39, 40, 41, 134, 137

Ravensbrück concentration camp, 5n12, 56, 57n46, 149; medical experiments at, 230, 236

razzias (roundups), 95–96, 121, 303

Realschule, 9n25, 272n41

Rechtman, Zwia, xxxvi–xxxvii

Red Army, xli, 43, 52, 279–80

Red Cross, 366. See also International Committee of the Red Cross; International Tracing Service of the Red Cross

refugee organizations, 323–24. See also specific organizations

Rehoboth Bastards, 200n20

Reicharbeitsdienst (Reich Labor Service), 277

Reich Association of Jews in Germany (Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland), 357

Reich Citizenship Law (Reichsbürgergesetz), 13. See also Nuremberg Laws

Reich Commissariat for the Strengthening of German Ethnicity (Reichskommissariat für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums), 205, 206

Reich Committee for the Scientific Registration of Severe Hereditary and Congenital Disorders (Reichsausschuss zur wissenschaftlichen Erfassung von erb- und anlagebedingten schweren Leiden), 211, 213–14, 217

Reichdienststelle (Reich Office) KLV, 275

Reich Interior Ministry, 32, 210, 211

Reich Labor Service (Reicharbeitsdienst), 277

Reichleitner, Franz, 171

Reich Office of the Criminal Police (Reichskriminalpolizeiamt), 222, 222n61

Reich Representation of Jews in Germany (Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland), 20, 21, 28, 265n33, 357n40

Reichsausschuss zur wissenschaftlichen Erfassung von erb- und anlagebedingten schweren Leiden (Reich Committee for the Scientific Registration of Severe Hereditary and Congenital Disorders), 211, 213–14, 217

Reichsbürgergesetz (Reich Citizenship Law), 13. See also Nuremberg Laws

Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt), 62, 63, 94, 144

Reichskommissariat für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums (Reich Commissariat for the Strengthening of German Ethnicity), 205, 206

Reichskriminalpolizeiamt (Reich Office of the Criminal Police), 222

Reichskristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass), 2, 24, 26; concentration camps after, 149; deaths on, 25; emigration after, 7, 8n21, 10, 68, 69, 73, 74

Reichsmark, 118n15, 213, 259, 333

Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Main Office), 62, 63, 94, 144

Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Association of Jews in Germany), 357

Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Representation of Jews in Germany), 20, 21, 28, 265n33, 357n40

Reifman, Leon, 370

Rel, Zugwachmann, 331

religion, xxxiii–xxxiv, 10, 25, 27, 268–71, 394

reparation payments, 257

repatriation, 62, 395, 402, 403

resistance: at Buchenwald, xxxviii–xxxix, 187–88; of children, 323, 340–41, 342, 343–44; executions of, 344, 345–46, 346; females in, 327–28, 344, 345; forms of, 323–24; to Hitler Youth, 252–57; partisans in, 323, 332–34, 334, 335–36; Polish, xiii; protest rallies as, 6, 267; publications as, 336–37; rioting as, 25. See also specific resistance actions

Retzow (Germany), 398

Reuss, Joseph Maria, 87, 89–90

Reuss, Robert, 33

Rhakotis, MS, 80

Rheinberger, Franz, 253

“Rhineland Bastards” (“Rheinland-Bastarde”), 193, 197–98

Rhine River, 58

Riga ghetto, 108n2, 127

Righteous Among the Nations”, 152n8, 368nn48–49, 369

Ring Bund Jüdische Jugend, 21

Ringelblum, Emmanuel, 183n50, 327, 336, 341, 348–51

Ritter, Robert, 222, 223, 224n66

RKFDV. See Reich Commissariat for the Strengthening of German Ethnicity

RKPA. See Reich Office of the Criminal Police

Rogers, Edith, 361

roll calls (Appells), xiii, 167, 168

Roma, 221–29, 227; in Independent State of Croatia, 228; policies for, 193, 195n8, 227–28. See also Gypsies

Romania, 42, 160; deaths in, 98–99; Oradea, 160; population of, 98; Roma in, 227–28

romanticism (Wandervögel), 252n15

Roosevelt, Franklin, 78

Roosevelt, Teddy, 263n31

Rosenfeld, Oskar, 134–35, 138, 293, 294–95

Rosh Hashanah, 117n13

roundups (razzias), 95–96, 121, 303

Royal Air Force, 46. See also British Royal Air Force

Rozenstrauch, Gucia, 288n13

Rudashevski, Yitskhok, 110–12, 289–90

Ruhrgebiet (Germany), 254

Rum, David, 383

rumki (Łódź currency), 118n16

Rumkowski, Mordechai Chaim, 109, 115, 116, 117, 302; compliance policy of, 122, 123, 124; criticism of, 122; “Give me your children!” speech by, 109, 123, 124–26

runners (Läufer), 165, 166, 401

RuSHA. See Race and Settlement Main Office

Russell, Charles Taze, 268

Rysinska, Josefa “Ziutka,” 152, 153

 

SA. See Sturmabteilung

Sachsenhausen concentration camp, 149, 236

St. Germaine-en-Laye Treaty, 15n37

Sankt Josefspflege, 224, 227

Sauckel, Fritz, 62

Säuglingslager (infant camps), 62–65, 66

Sauna, 166

Savichev, Nicolai Rodionovich, 53

Savicheva, Nina, 53

Savicheva, Tanya, 52–53, 54, 54

Schacter, Herschel, 406

Scheine (work certifications), 137

Scheurenberg, Klaus, 94, 95, 95

Scheurenberg, Lucie, 94

Scheurenberg, Paul, 94, 95

Schiff, Charlene, xxiv–xxv

Schiff, Edward, xxvn5

Schindler’s List, 177, 178n43

Schink, Bartholomäus, 253

Schivelbein (Germany), 265, 266–67

Schlachtensee Displaced Persons Camp, 397, 399

Schlotz-Klink, Gertrud, 231n74

Schumann, Horst, 215n50, 236

Schütz, Adolf, 253

Schutzhaft (protective custody), 267

Schutzstaffel (SS), Marriage Ordinance of, 203

Schutzstaffel (SS), 6, 55, 81, 108, 150, 377

Schwarz, Günther, 253

Schweitzer, Albert, 368n48

Schwesternschaften (Sisterhood Organizations), 248

Scout Movement (Pfadfinder), 247, 252

SD. See Security Service

Second Decree for the Implementation of the Law for the Changing of Family Names and First Names, 32

Secours Suisse aux Enfants (Swiss Children’s Aid), 366, 368

Security Police (Sipo), 56, 81

Security Service (SD), 81

segregation: in Berlin, 39n9; in education, xvi, 9, 28, 29, 30, 40, 264, 284; in public places, 7, 8, 31–32

Seitz, Franz Josef, 269–71

Seitz, Willi, 269, 270–71

selection process (selektsyes): at concentration camps, 154–58, 159, 173–74, 176, 177, 178, 383, 410; for labor, 151, 152, 154–55, 158, 159, 164, 172, 173–74, 178, 410

Sendung und Gewissen (Unger), 210n44

Shcherbatsevich, Volodya, 344, 345, 346, 346

Shcherbatsevicha, Olga, 345

Shek, Alisa, 385, 386–87

Shek, Ze’ev, 385

Shereshevski, Avreyml, 336

Sh’erit ha Pletah (Surviving Remnant), 396

Shmulewitz, Icek, 177

Shmulovitch, Malke, 335

Shoah, 184

Sholomville, 365

Sicherheitsdienst (SD). See Security Service

Siege, 36n3

Siege of Orleans, 327n8

Siegfried Line, 276

Siewart, Robert, 188

Silberbart, Gert, 377–81, 382

Singer, Oskar, 137–38, 139–40

Sinti, 227. See also Gypsies; Roma

Sipo. See Security Police

Sisterhood Organizations (Schwesternschaften), 248

SK 4a. See Sonderkommando 4a

Skarzysko Kamienna munitions factory, xxxviii

slojska (Sluice), 147, 307

Slovakia, 274n45

Slovak State, 144

Słowo Młodych (Young People’s Voice), 338, 339, 340

Sluice (slojska), 147, 307

smuggling, 323, 340–41, 342, 342–43

Snow White, 312

Sobibór extermination camp, 150, 170, 172, 173–74

Sobibór Uprising, 173, 323, 329, 330–32

Socialist Unity Party (Sozialistische Einheitspartei), 188n59

social services, 115, 122

The Society for Trades and Agricultural Labor (Obshestvo Remeslenofo zemledelcheskofo Truda), 101n45

soldiers: children as, 276–78; conscription of, 268, 276–78; deaths of, 277, 279

Sonderbehandlung (special treatment), 164

Sonderkommando, 161, 172, 182; at Auschwitz, 241n87; liquidation of, 183

Sonderkommando 4a (SK 4a), 86–87, 92

Sonderkommando Lange, 182

The Song of the Slaughtered Jewish People (Katzenelson), 286n6

Sonnenstein, 216, 236n83

Soviet Union: children from, 63; deaths in, 68, 332; invasion of, 42, 43n17, 47, 61, 82, 88n29, 109; Prague’s liberation by, 385–87; Roma in, 228

Sozialistische Einheitspartei (Socialist Unity Party), 188n59

Spanish Civil War, 49

special pediatric units (Kinderfachabteilungen), 211, 217

special treatment (Sonderbehandlung), 164

Srebrnik, Szymon “Spinnefix”, 183, 184–86

Šroubkov, Josef, 57

Šroubkov, Josef, Sr., 57n45

Šroubková, Marie, 57–58

SS. See Schutzstaffel

SS Race and Settlement Main Office (SS Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt), 56

St. Louis, MS, 77, 78, 79, 79–81, 81

Staatsbürgerschaft (state citizenship), 13

Stach (agronomist), xxvix–xxx, xxxi

Stadtroda, 217

Stangl, Franz, 170–71, 175n36

starvation: deaths from, xxvi, 52, 54, 59, 99, 227–28, 313, 354n36; during Dutch Hunger Winter, 58–60, 61; in ghettos, 134–41, 148; of infants, 65, 66

state citizenship (Staatsbürgerschaft), 13

State Department, U.S., 78

sterilization, 2, 192, 193; conditions for, 194–95, 196, 246; extralegal, 195n8; of Gypsies, 223, 226; of Jewish people, 197, 309; medical experiments, 236; of mixed-breeds, 201–2; public response to, 259; of “Rhineland Bastards,” 198

Stern, Heinemann, 20

Storm Division (Sturmabteilung), 2, 244, 308–9

A Story of a Life (Appelfeld), 415

Strasser, Marguerite, 25–26

Straucher, Maria, 389–91

Streicher, Julius, 6, 261

Strippel, Arnold, 232, 234

Stroop, Jürgen, 326

Stuckart, Wilhelm, 213–14

Sturmabteilung (SA), 2, 244, 308–9

Der Stürmer, 6, 8, 27, 261

Stutthof concentration camp, 164

Sudetenland, 24, 144

Suedfeld, Peter, 388

suicide: of Jewish people, 55n34, 77n15, 152, 173, 182n49, 279, 324n2, 326; postwar, 171n29, 175n36, 182n49, 210n39, 210n43, 229n72, 231n75, 241n88, 274n44, 279

survival. See concentration camps

Survival in Auschwitz (Levi), 411n40

Surviving Remnant (Sh’erit ha Pletah), 396

Suttrop (Germany), 282

swimming pools, 7, 8

Swing Kids (Swingjugend), 251

Swiss Aid Cartel for Child War Victims, 368n49

Swiss Children’s Aid (Secours Suisse aux Enfants), 366, 368

Swiss Red Cross, 366

synagogues, 25, 27

Szabo, Magda, 155, 156–58

Szalasi, Ferenc, 104

Sztójay, Döme, 103

Szulberg, Gizela, 393–95

Szulberg, Michał, 393

Szulberg, Necha, 393

 

Tage und Nächte (Rosenfeld), 293n21

tattoos, 181, 420

teachers, 258

Teacher with Children Wearing Black Uniforms (Toll, N.), 320

Tec, Nechama, 291–92

Teddy Bear, 262, 263n31

Teheran Conference, 48n27

Terezin. See Theresienstadt

Tewes, Ernst, 87, 89

textbooks, 259–61

Thalhimer, William, Sr., 21, 23

“There Is My Soul” (Birenbaum), 418–19

Theresienstadt (Terezin), 158, 305; ghetto in, 94, 144, 145–48, 158; liberation of, 385–87; Red Cross at, 145, 307; Small Fortress, 385

Theresienstadt family camp, 163–64, 167–68; liquidation of, 401; play at, 299–300; Red Cross at, 164. See also Auschwitz II-Birkenau

Thomas, Werner, 245, 245n3, 246–47

“The Threatening Calamity” (“Das drohende Unheil”), 88n28

Through the Eyes of a Twelve-Year-Old Girl (Hescheles, J.), 153

Time of Struggle, 257

Tito, Josip Broz, 49

“Todesfuge” (Celan), 416n50

Todt, Fritz, 66n64

Toll, Ervin, 320

Toll, Nelly, 319–20

Tortszyld, Pola, 288–89

Total War, 35

toys, 261–62, 294–95; butterfly, 296, 297, 298

transit camps, 5n12, 14n33, 96, 152. See also specific transit camps

Transnistrian Reservation, 99, 101, 227, 415

Transylvania, 410

Trau keinem Fuchs auf grüner Heid und keinem Jud bei seinem Eid (Don’t Trust a Fox in a Green Meadow or the Jew by His Oath), 261

Treaty of St. Germaine-en-Laye, 15n37

Treaty of Trianon, 102n46, 160n15

Treaty of Versailles, 15, 257

Treblinka extermination camp, 70, 128, 130, 133; commandant of, 170–71; Great Deportation Action to, 324, 325; revolt at, 328

Trianon Treaty, 102n46, 160n15

Troper, Morris C., 78, 79, 79–80

trotyl, xxxviiin15

Trunk, Isaiah, 383n8, 384

Trus, Kiril, 344, 345

Trzebinkski, Alfred, 232

tuberculosis, 230–35

twins, 237, 238

typhus, 354, 401

 

“U-boat,” 38, 38n5, 39

Ukraine, xxii, 87–91; Lviv. See Lvov (Poland)

Umschlagplatz, 129, 130, 342

Un di Velt Hot Geshvign (Wiesel, E.), 410, 412–14

Unger, Hellmuth, 210

Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime, 188n59

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA), 209, 381n7, 396

United States (U.S.): Burkeville, 21, 22–23; emigration to, 4n11, 5, 7, 8n21, 32, 70, 76, 77–81, 81, 96, 287n9, 290n16, 320, 356, 361–65, 365; eugenics in, 191–92; jitterbugging in, 251n13; Philadelphia, 32; State Department, 78

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), xvii, xxvn5, 315, 356, 398n28, 409n38

University of Berlin, 224

University of Tel Aviv, 16n40

UNRRA. See United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency

Untermensch (inferior being), 27n57

Upwards (El Al), 337–38

Uruguay, 72

U.S. See United States

USHMM. See United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ustaše regime, 49, 50

 

V-1 flying bombs, 47

van Pels, Hermann, 353, 354n36

van Pels, Peter, 354n36

Vélodrome d’Hiver, 368n50

Verešová, Charlotta, 306

Versailles Treaty, 15, 257

Veselá, Dagmar, 56n41

Vichy regime, 44, 96, 368n50

Victims of the Past (Opfer der Vergangenheit), 259

vide (prayer confessing sins), 174, 413

Vienna (Austria), 15n36, 279

Viik, Jaan, 228–29, 230

Vilna (Lithuania), xxxv, 109–12, 127, 289–91

Vilner Tog, 110, 289–90

Viniki forced labor camp, 398n28

Virginia Plan, 21, 22

visas, 20, 32, 77, 78; dead-number, 364; quota system of, 363–64; work, 96

Vistula River, xivn2

Vittel internment camp, 286n6, 287n9

Voerde (Germany), 64, 65–66

Voeten, Bert, 59–60

The Voice of Youth (Di Yugent Stimme), 338

Volk comrade (Volksgenosse), 10

Völkerschlacht (Battle of Nations), 276n49

Völkischer Beobachter, 278

Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans), 258

Volksgenosse (Volk comrade), 10

Volksgemeinschaft (racial community), 10n26, 193–94, 268

Volksschule, 17, 260, 269

Volkssturm, 276, 277

vom Rath, Ernst, 24

von Bülow, Gabriele, 30n61

Von der alten Heimat zu der neuen Heimat” (“From Our Old Home to Our New Home”), 72

von Etzdorf, Hasso, 88n28

von Humboldt, Wilhelm, 30n61

von Neurath, Konstantin, 144n51

von Reichenau, Walther, 88

von Sammern-Frankenegg, Ferdinand, 326

von Schirach, Baldur, 244, 275

von Sydow, Anna, 30n61

von Tschammer und Osten, Hans, 171, 247

von Verschuer, Otmar, 237, 241, 242

 

Waffen-SS platoon, 87

Wagner, Gustav, 175n36, 231n75

Wagner, Robert, 361

Wagners-Rogers Bill, 361

Waldkommando, 183n50, 184, 185

Wandervögel (romanticism), 252n15

Wannsee Conference, 95, 145

warehouse for personal effects (Effektenkammer), 398

war-guilt clause, 257

Warsaw (Poland), xxxii; ghetto of, 108, 109, 121, 128, 129–30, 284, 285, 286–87, 338n25; sewer system of, 338n25

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 108, 286, 323, 324–28, 338n25

Wartheland (Poland), 112, 181

Wasser, Bluma, 173, 330

Wasser, Hersh, 330

The Watchtower, 268

Watch Tower Society, 268

Wattenberg, Lena, 287

Wattenberg, Miriam (Mary Berg), 286–87

Wehrmacht troops, 41, 68, 87

Weimar Republic, 3

Weiss, Irena, 305, 306

Weiss, Otto, 158, 305, 306

Weissová, Helga, 158, 159, 305, 306–7, 308

Wentzler, Ernst, 210, 211

“We Remain True to the Polar Bears,” 255

Wessel, Horst, 271n40

Westerbork transit camp, 354–55

Western Wall (Westwall), 276

West German Chełmno Trial, 183

Westwall (Western Wall), 276

“When I Am Twenty” (Koplowicz, A.), 318

The White Life (Katzenelson), 286n6

White Paper, 69n2

Wiener, Jacob. See Zwienicki, Gerd

Wieringerneer (Netherlands), 60n50

Wiesel, Beatrice, 410

Wiesel, Elie, 409–11, 412–14

Wiesel, Hilda, 410

Wiesel, Sarah Feig, 409–10

Wiesel, Shlomo, 409, 410

Wiesel, Tzipora, 410

Wiesenthal, Simon, 171

Wilczik, Gerhard, 87, 89

Wilczyńska, Stefania, 129, 130, 133, 134

Wilson Railway Station, 402

Winter Relief Organization (Jewish Winterhilfe), 94

Wirths, Eduard, 241

Wirtz, Ernst, 64–65, 66

Witzler, Pierre-Marcel, 369

Wojtek, Krysia, 319

Wojtek, Michaj, 319

Wolf, Josef, 329

Wołowicz, Guta, 288n13

work certifications (Scheine), 137

working papers, xli, 135, 137

World War I, 5, 15; deaths in, 35, 193n4

World War II, 35, 67–68

World Zionist Organization, 396n26

Wrocław (Poland), 3n9

 

Yad Vashem, 318, 368n48

Yehoash, 290, 291

yellow star, 32, 42, 43–44, 45, 144, 309

Yerushalmi, A., 334

YIVO, 291

Yoselewska, Rivka, 83–86

Young Girls’ League (Jungmädel), 248, 250

Young Guard (Yunge Gwardie), 338

Young People’s Voice (Słowo Młodych), 338, 339, 340

Youth Aliyah, 69, 139, 315n48, 338, 397

Youth Avant-Garde (Avangarda Młodziży), 338

Youth League of the Nazi Party (Jugendbund der NSDAP), 244

Youth Leagues (Bündische Jugend), 247, 252

youth organizations, 243–47, 256–57; for females, 248–50, 251; military training in, 245, 272, 273, 277; publications of, 337–38. See also specific youth organizations

Yugoslavia, 41–42, 48, 51

Yugoslav Partisan Movement, 48–49

Yunge Gwardie (Young Guard), 338

 

Zagrodski (Belarus), 83–86

Zarathustra, 10

Żegota, 128n27, 152–53, 324

Ze’irei Zion, 315n48

Zelkowicz, Josef, 117–20, 138, 303–4

Zielke, Regina, 309

Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp), 123n22

Zigeunermischlinge, 223–26, 227

Zlatin, Miron, 369

Zlatin, Sabine, 369, 371

złoty, 341, 349

ŻOB. See Jewish Fighting Organization

Z Problematyki ruchu w chwili obecnej (On the Present Problems of the Movement), 338

Żurawski, Max, 183n50, 184, 186

Zweig, Helena, 187

Zweig, Stefan Jerzy, xxxix, 187–89, 190

Zweig, Sylvia, 187

Zweig, Zacharias, xxxix, 187

Zwienicki, Gerd, 9, 10–11

Zwienicki, Selma, 10

Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa, 324, 325, 326, 327

Żydowski Związek Wojskowy (Jewish Military Union), 325, 328

Zyklon B, 162

Żywulska, Krystyna, xiii

ŻZW, 325, 328